Bold Terms 1
What verse is the Creation Mandate in?
Genesis 1:28
Latitude goes in which directions?
East, West
What is special about contour lines?
They separate the colors on a relief map to indicate all points on a map that have the same altitude
Which "sphere" that consists of all the different areas on the earth where life can exist and the living organisms that live there.
Biosphere
The molten rock in the earth's mantle is called the what?
Magma
What does the prime meridian pass through?
Greenwich, England
What is significant about an interrupted projection?
It is interrupted with gaps and cuts
What does a thematic map tell us?
Nations climate, population, and resources
The earth seems to be divided into several layers. The thin outer "skin" is called the what?
Crust
Although rocks might seem solid and unmoving, they are constantly weakened by the action of what?
Weathering
The great circle does what to the hemisphere?
Cuts it in half
What does GIS stand for?
Geographic information system
What does the modern concept of multiculturalism teach us?
That all cultures are equally valid and no culture is better than another.
Where these slabs rise above the level of the ocean, they form what?
Continents
What is a cataclysm?
A violent upheaval or change in the earth's crust
Longitude goes in which direction?
North, South
The covering of air that surrounds our planet is the what?
Atmosphere
What provides tantalizing hints about the secrets that lie below the earth's crust?
Earthquakes
What are the three major landforms?
Mountains, plains, and plateaus
If you're a mapmaker and you roll a sheet of paper into a cylinder, which kind of projection is that?
Cylindrical projection
What is the tool called that has North, South, East, and West?
Compase rose
The earth's crust and the section of the upper mantle that moves the tectonic plates are the what?
Lithosphere
They proposed that the waves were entering a layer of hot, plastic material called the what?
Mantle
Wide areas of flat land